Plates from the Series “Variations on a Geometric Theme”

Designed by Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, Wedgwood

1971

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Small tin-glazed earthenware tile with an opaque, creamy white ground, transfer-printed in black with the image of "The Tithe Pig" featuring a peasant couple with a baby and a pig and a clergyman in a long cloak and hat, the wife offers her baby to the clergyman as a tithe instead of the pig, which is offered by the husband, within a scrolled border.
Dark blue jasper perfume bottle with white relief scene of Hope with anchor on one side, and figures mourning warrior on the other, with crystal stopper
Large, heavy beer pump handle of white jasper with dark blue jasper dip and white relief decoration, the body with on one side the muse Urania, muse of astronomy, and on the other the muse Melpomene, muse of tragedy, between them are dividers comprised of acanthus leaves and anthemion motifs.
Bust in profile right in Austrain general's uniform with sash and ermine mantle.